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Testing the forum

By drh on 2018-08-10 13:51:22
and edited on 2018-08-10 13:54:10
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I accepted this because the Forum is new. But at some point, I think we
moderators should start rejecting posts such as the above.

Maybe the forum feature needs some kind of "sandbox" for users to try things out in a way that only they can see the results? There is a sandbox wiki page
(https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/wiki?name=Sandbox) that anybody can read
or write to. Perhaps we also need a sandbox forum thread? Perhaps the
backoffice automatically clears out all posts from the sandbox thread
daily, at the same time that it sends the daily digest?

Yes, but if that triggers email alerts, that may just be another form of spam. Albeit, not created by robots.

I do like the idea of having it purged daily, though.

By drh on 2018-08-10 14:27:46

Perhaps writes to the sandbox only trigger email alerts to users who have
messages in the sandbox? And since the sandbox messages disappear daily,
any spamming problems will automatically resolve themselves.

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